TIPPERARY FOOD TOURS

www.tipperaryfoodproducers.ie ABOUT US

Tipperary Food Producers Network It is said that the Tipperary Food Producers Network Tipperary Food Tours 2020 is a new initiative by Tipperary Food started because of a meal, or perhaps two! In 2007, Slow Producers Network in conjunction with Tipperary Tourism, to Food Ireland decided to host a Long Table Dinner at The allow locals and tourists alike to visit the homes and farms Apple Farm near Cahir. This special evening inspired Pat of our hard-working producers. Whelan (James Whelan Butchers) to get the wheels in motion in 2008. These tour experiences with Tipperary farmers welcome you to experience the day to day life of a Food Producer and the processes involved in creating some of Ireland’s finest quality The first project was to launch a website of Tipperary food & drink produce. We have a total of 32 members in our foods and to bring together a cohort of Tipperary Tipperary Network and producers for a Long Table Dinner event, held in Cahir 10 producers are included in this initiative. Castle. The aim was to highlight how these 14 producers were employing 180 people locally and turning over €15 This brochure outlines the locations and details of tours for 2020. million. This event and its significance was covered by For a unique and authentic experience, we welcome you to enjoy Nationwide on Irish National Television and brought about a Tipperary Food Tour while visiting our beautiful “Premier” the establishment of our network. county of Tipperary in the heart of Ireland’s Ancient East. The first Network meeting was held in 2009 at the Cashel Palace Hotel, with Pat Whelan of James Whelan butchers as Chairman. Projects were embarked upon. We wanted to engage in shared learning, to share our individual knowledge and resources and to share in each other’s foods. The vision was always to position Tipperary as the cradle of nourishment, by virtue of its natural environment and the integrity of its food producers. Some of the highlight events since 2008 include:

Long Table Dinners at the Army Barracks Clonmel (2009), Brocka on the Water, Inch House, Chez Hans and The Old Convent (2010), Rockwell College (2011), The Irish Embassy in Brussels (2013) and Coolbawn Quay (2015), Tipperary Breakfast at the Irish Embassy in London in 2016, The Guild of Fine Food Great Taste Awards hosted by the Network in Tipperary in 2016, Development and launch of Kevin Thornton Tipperary Breakfast in 2017, Publication, Launch and Roll Out of Tipperary Food Tour Children’s Book in 2019, Launch of Tipperary Food Experiences & Tipperary Breakfast Champions in 2019. Supporters of The Tipperary Food Producers Network Our vibrant network of dedicated producers includes cheesemakers and beekeepers, fruit farmers and cider makers, butchers and bakers, sauce and jam-makers. We have producers of ice-cream and sorbet, vegetable oil as well as sweets, chocolates and crisps. We even have members making tortillas and peanut butter! We are proud of what we have achieved over the years. Hopefully you too can enjoy our great produce and our tours while visiting Tipperary. www.tipperaryfoodproducers.ie CASHEL BLUE Visitor Experience Cashel Farmhouse Cheesemakers is a 100% family- owned and managed business. When Louis & Jane Grubb moved back to the family farm in the late 1970s, their ambition was to harness the quality of their sweet, creamy milk to make a traditional farmhouse product, and in doing so to provide a livelihood for their family and locality. From this notion Cashel Blue® was born. Cashel Blue® continues to be made in a traditional manner by the second generation, Sarah and Sergio Furno. We also make Cashel Blue Organic, Crozier Blue - Ireland’s only Sheep’s milk blue, and Shepherd’s Store, our GALTEE HONEY FARM HONEY GALTEE hard sheep’s milk cheese. Visit us! Book online cashelblue.com

WHEN: Any Monday or Tuesday, 10am to 4pm (excluding Irish Public Holidays). WHERE: Cashel Blue Dairy, Fethard, Co. Tipperary, E91 FK84 PRICE: €6.00 per person.

Group Visits Galtee Honey Farm is situated at the heart of Ireland’s first voluntary conservation area for the Native Irish Black Bee. Taste & Compare 3 of our honeys and our honey mead. (50-60 minutes. Max 20 people) WHEN: From May to September (Booking Essential) WHERE: Galtee Honey Farm, Glengarra Wood, Burncourt, Cahir, Co Tipperary, E21 YR64 PRICE: Adults - €8, Children - €4. Minimum charge €80

Beekeeping Visits Put on beesuit, open a beehive and see bees up close! Taste & Compare 6 of our honeys (3 rare ones not for sale) Our cheeses consistently have a glass of our Honey Mead (optional). Learn about win international cheese awards, including those Honey, Beeswax, Propolis, Pollen, The Life of Bees, History at the World Cheese & Heritage of Beekeeping. (2 hours. Max. 10 people) Awards, Great Taste Awards (UK) and Mondial WHEN: From May to September (Booking Essential). du Fromage Awards WHERE: Galtee Honey Farm, Glengarra Wood, Burncourt, (France). Cahir E21 YR64 PRICE: Adults - €35, Children - €20. Minimum charge €70.

0876743030 @galteehoney 052 6131151 @CashelBlue

[email protected] f galteehoneyfarm [email protected] f cashelblue www.galteehoney.com www.cashelblue.com THE APPLE FARM Flower Meadows Walk & HoneyTasting Apple Farm Tour Welcome to The Apple Farm. Brookfield Farm specialises in artisan food On our tour you will hear a delivered direct to you. From a beautiful little about the history of apple landscape running down to the shores of Lough growing in Ireland, how the farm came into Derg in Co. Tipperary we carefully produce being, and the crops we grow, as well as delicious wild flower honey, farm made beeswax ecology and environmental aspects of fruit candles and tender lambs. growing. You will also see how we make

BROOKFIELD FARM juice, cider and vinegar on our farm. A Guests will enjoy a talk on beekeeping and product sampling is also part of the tour. honey tasting. Experience a farm walk through acres of flower meadows on the shores of scenic WHEN: Tours available by pre- Lough Derg. Understand the Irish black bee and arrangement for groups of 24 or more the importance of pollinators. Enjoy beautiful people in May, June, July and August. broadleaf trees, magnificent lake views, lovely Pre-Booking Essential. flower meadows and crops, friendly sheep, birds WHERE: Moorstown, and wildlife. Bring home some farm gifts! Cahir, Co. Tipperary, E21 YX33 PRICE: Cost of tours is €5.00 per person WHEN: All year round but Pre-Booking Essential subject to a minimum charge of €120.00 WHERE: Coolbawn, Nenagh, Tipperary, E45 EA09 PRICE: €10 Per person. Min. charge of €120 applies. Pick Your Own When our fruits are ripe, we offer the opportunity to pick your own. This is a lovely activity to enjoy with family and friends, especially younger children. You are welcome to use our picnic area to eat what you pick, or bring along a lunch to enjoy near the playground.

WHEN: The fruit are ripe. Please keep an eye on our social media. STRAWBERRIES: Usually late June to early July PRICE: Entry €2.00 per adult and €1.00 per child. Fruit picked @ €9 per kg

APPLES: 2-5pm Sept 5th & 6th. October 24th, 25th & 26th, and dates to be announced PRICE: Price: €4.00 per adult and €2.00 per child. Fruit picked @ €0.80 to €1.20 per kg

www.brookfield.farm 086 8551309 [email protected] +353 52 7441459 www.theapplefarm.com @farmbrookfield f BrookfieldFarmProduce @theapplefarmer f IrishAppleFarm MAGNERS FARM Magners Farm Magners Farm is a pasture raised egg farm in Moyglass, Fethard. Kylie Magner and her family sell fresh, delicious eggs reared on their lush fields. The hens are truly free range, spending their days out on pasture foraging and their nights tucked up in their warm sheds. The eggs they produce are incredibly fresh and nutritious due to the time the hens spend outside in daylight and their SHEEP MILK IRELAND SHEEP varied diet.

On your visit, take a walk around the farm with Kylie and learn how the egg laying process happens. Watch the eggs being collected, graded and packed. To finish enjoy morning or afternoon tea. WHEN: May to September. Pre Booking Essential. WHERE: Moyglass, Fethard, E92 E528 PRICE: €8 per person. Min. fee of €80 applies. Eggs and award winning chicken bone broth on sale. Sheep Milk Experience Crosse Sheep Milk Company is the largest sheep dairy farm in Ireland. They supply artisan cheese-makers, most notably, Cashel Farmhouse Cheese-makers for their Crozier Blue Cheese. Brothers, Michael and Brendan are developing a range of dairy products of their own, the first of which is their Ice cream. The ice-cream can be found for sale at the Rock of Cashel or in some local restaurants throughout the summer. The Crosse brothers would be delighted to show you around the farm and taste some of the cheeses and ice-creams. There may also be an opportunity to bottle feed lambs and experience a sheep dog trail. WHEN: Tours on request. WHERE: Ballinamona, Cashel, Co Tipperary PRICE: Private tours on request. Pre-Booking Essential. [email protected] Please contact by email. +353 83 876 3598 www.magnersfarm.com

0879404820 [email protected] @magnersfarm f Magners Farm www.sheepmilk.ie CROSSOGUE PRESERVES INCH HOUSE

Taste & Trek Arrive at the home of Crossogue Preserves, a short drive from Holycross village. You will be greeted by founder Veronica and taste a variety of her 90 preserves, followed by a tour and a talk about the artisan jam factory. Walk, Talk & Treats After meeting the team who lovingly make the Nora and Mairin, mother and daughter, are very jams you’ll be treated to tea and Crossogue passionate women and when it comes to food they are scones in Veronica and Tony’s family kitchen true to form. Working together they have developed (or Crossogue House). their award-winning Inch House Pudding. The walk will With an opportunity to buy preserves if start with an introduction from the family about the you wish, you’ll then be taken on a tour of house and its history. If it is available we can offer a Crossogue’s farmlands, which is based in quick tour of the house. We will then take a short stroll the heart of Tipperary’s Golden Vale. Trek around the farm yard and surrounding lands talking around the farm at your leisure on the rural about history, buildings, animals and crops. After your path created for walkers and horse-riders alike walk you will be welcomed in for some homemade before sampling your next Tipperary treat. nibbles and treats. Inch House is available as luxury private rental, catered or self-catering. WHEN: May to Sept, Pre-Booking Essential. WHERE: Crossogues Farm, Holycross WHEN: All Year Round. Pre-Booking Essential. E41 W6Y8 WHERE: Either the main house or in the coachyard PRICE: Max tour 10 people @ €15 per house for food. E41 N2Y5 person. Min. charge €90. Duration 2 hours. PRICE: €20 per person. Min. charge €120 1st hour tasting talk and tea. 2nd hour Trek Limited to 20 spaces max. Suitable for over 12s. around Crossogue’s Equestrian farm.

[email protected] 0504 51348 0504 54416 www.crossoguepreserves.com www.inchhouse.ie [email protected] @inchhousef InchHouse @crossoguepreserves f crossogue preserves BLACKCASTLE FARM AYLE FARM AYLE

Blackcastle Farm Tour Welcome to Blackcastle Farm, a biodiversity focused Bord Bia approved farm outside Two Mile Borris, Thurles where John & Ann Commins have a herd of purebred Piedmontese cattle. Beef products include traditional beef Talk & Lunch cuts, beef sausages, Bresaola, Carne Salada, Pastrami and On the Randall’s small farm situated 15 minutes other beef charcuterie. outside Tipperary Town and 25 minutes from Limerick city you will hear about their journey from moving Blackcastle Farm also has a full programme of workshops to Ireland in 2001 to becoming multi award winning in our 200-year-old sustainably restored cow sheds, artisan food producers, on a very small scale. focused on food and sustainable living. Workshops You will have an opportunity to meet our pet pig include seasonal and cultural cooking, smoking, curing, Amanda and our rescue pony Coco (we will supply the & preserving foods, building a back-yard smoker or clay apples or carrots that they enjoy). You could also take oven, growing food, herbs and spices, river biodiversity a walk through the garden and polytunnel, see the walk, catching and cooking fish, enhancing biodiversity in chickens and maybe even see the bees bringing back your space. pollen to their hives. Join a workshop, meet new friends and live the dream. After hearing our story, you will be served a lunch and dessert using some of our own grown produce from WHEN: All year round by arrangement the garden. WHERE: Blackcastle Farm, Two Mile Borris, Thurles, Co. Tipperary. E41 TK65. WHEN: May to October, Pre-Booking Essential. PRICE: Cost vary for each e,g. ½ day for €80, Full day WHERE: Ayle Farm, Ayle, Oola, E34 RX96 for €120, 2-day workshops for €230. Workshops include PRICE: €24 per person, children under 8 half price. participants sharing a meal with food sourced from Maximum: 6 guests Blackcastle Farm and The Tipperary Food Producers.

www.aylefoods.ie [email protected] 086 1719802 086 368 0969 [email protected] www.blackcastlefarm.ie

@aylefarmf aylefarm @Blackcastlelife f Blackcastlelife Shop Local, Eat Local, Stay Local FARMERS MARKETS

CLONMEL FARMERS MARKET Visitors will find a wide range of fresh local produce such as fresh fish, locally farmed meat and poultry, organic fruit and vegetables, fresh baked breads, cakes and savouries, cheeses, Pâté, savoury and sweet pancakes, free range chicken, garden plants & shrubs. New addition to the market is the Rivesci Food Truck serving delicious vegetarian and vegan food. SATURDAY 10am - 2pm St Peter & Paul’s Primary School, Kickham Street, Clonmel CARRICK-ON-SUIR FARMERS MARKET TIPPERARY FOOD Fresh local produce is available such as fresh fish, locally farmed TOUR BOOK meat and poultry, organic fruit and vegetables, fresh baked breads, cakes and savouries, cheeses, pate, savoury and sweet pancakes and much more. FRIDAY 10am - 2pm Carrick-on-Suir Heritage Centre Grounds, Main Street, Carrick CAHIR FARMERS MARKET Specialising in vegetarian goodies, fresh baked bread and savoury bread, meat stalls, apple farm stall with seasonal fruits, juices, cider vinegar and cheese. SATURDAY 9am - 1pm Castle Car Park, Cahir, Tipperary. The Tipperary Food Tour Book has TIPPERARY TOWN FARMERS MARKET been created to use as part of a Food Vegetarian goodies, fresh baked bread and savoury bread, meat Education Programme for Primary stalls, seasonal fruits, juices, vegetables, cheese. Fresh local Schools in County Tipperary. produce. SATURDAY 9am - 2pm Tipperary Town Shopping Centre car park, Tipperary Town THE KEY AIMS OF THE PROGRAMME INCLUDE: THURLES FARMERS MARKET • To educate primary school children in Tipperary around a number of core concepts. Shoppers can buy fresh local produce and goods such as fruit • Provide an understanding of how food is and vegetables, cakes, cheese and jams, directly from the produced. growers, farmers and producers. SATURDAY 9.30am - 12.30pm • Provide an understanding of where food comes The Greyhound Track, Thurles, Co. Tipperary from and its provenance. • Educate children in relation to the importance TEMPLEMORE FARMERS MARKET of good nourishing food through experiential Shoppers can buy fresh local produce and goods such as fruit learning. and vegetables, cakes, cheese and jams, directly from the • Introduce children to artisan food production. growers, farmers and producers. WEDNESDAY 9am - 3pm The Main Square, Templemore, Co. Tipperary WHERE: This fun & colourful book can NENAGH FARMERS MARKET be purchased on our website www.tipperaryfoodproducers.ie Stalls sell a variety of goods including fresh local produce, home- and also at The Apple Farm, Cahir. baking, organic goods plus lots more. SATURDAY 10am - 3pm Quintin’s Way, Pearse Street, Nenagh, Tipperary. PRICE €8.99 TIPPERARY FOOD PRODUCERS MEMBERS LIST TIPPERARY FOOD PRODUCERS MEMBERS LIST

AYLE FOODS CASHEL FARMHOUSE THE GREEN BOWL www.aylefoods.ie VERA MIKLAS CHEESE www.veramiklas.com Chutneys, Pasta Sauces, COMPANY www.cashelblue.com www.thegreenbowlcompany.ie Modelling chocolate Beetroot Chutney, Granola Cheeses Frozen Wheatgrass

BOULABAN FARM COOLEENEY FARM DERG FARMHOUSE LONGWAYS CIDER www.boulabanefarm.ie www.cooleeney.com CHEESE www.longwayscider.ie Icecream Cheeses www.dergfarmhousecheese.ie Craft Cider, Sparkling Cider, Cheeses Cider Vinegar

CASHEL FINE FOODS CROWE MEATS BROOKFIELD FARM BLANCO NINO

www.cashelfinefoods.ie (DUNDRUM) LTD www.brookfield.farm www.blanco-nino.com Sausages & Pudding www.crowefarm.ie Honey, Lamb, Tortillas Pork Visitor Experiences

CROSSOGUE INCH HOUSE EMERALD OILS ANNIE’S ORGANIC PRESERVES LTD www.inchhouse.ie www.emeraldoils.ie FARM www.crossoguepreserves.com Black & White Pudding Cold pressed rapeseed oil www.anniesfarmtipperary.ie Jams & Marmalades Private Rental Home Salads, Veg, herbs, edible flowers

HICKEYS BAKERY MAGS’ HOME GALTEE HONEY IRISH HEDGEROW AND CAFÉ BAKING FARM www.irish-hedgerow.ie

www.hickeysbakery.com www.magshomebaking.ie www.galteehoney.com Sparkling Elderflower Breads & Brack Breads, Tarts, Scones 100% Irish honey Refreshers

JAMES WHELAN BLACKCASTLE FARM THREE MEN IN A LISDUFF FINE BUTCHERS www.blackcastlefarm.ie TRAILER FOODS www.jameswhelanbutchers.com Beef products www.3men.ie www.lisdufffoods.ie Beef & Lamb & Farm Tours Artisan Ketchups Bacon

O’DONNELLS CRISPS THE APPLE FARM SPEARMANS BAKERY THE NUTSHED www.odonnellscrisps.com www.theapplefarm.com www.spearmanstearoom.com www.nutshed.ie Crisps Apple Juices, fresh fruit, craft Bakery Superfoods, Granolas cider

SHEEP MILK RED NOSE WINE BARBARA RUSSELL MAGNERS FARM www.rednosewine.com CATERING www.magnersfarm.com IRELAND

Selection of Wines www.barbararussellcatering.ie Pasture Raised Eggs www.sheepmilk.ie Chef Sheeps Milk, Yogurts, Ice Cream WHERE TO FIND US LOCAL ATTRACTIONS

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Lough Derg Roscrea Castle ROSCREA Nenagh Heritage Centre Nenagh Castle NENAGH

TEMPLEMORE GAA Museum Thurles

6 Fethard Horse Holycross Abbey 3 Country Experience 10 THURLES Fethard’s Hore Abbey 5 Walled Town McCarthy’s Pub Rock of Cashel HOLYCROSS St. Declan’s Way TIPPERARY BREAKFAST CHAMPIONS 2020 Cashel Folk Village 4 7 2 CASHEL TIPPERARY FETHARD This is a new initiative for Tipperary Food Producers Network in conjunction with Tipperary Tourism. It represents a great model 9 CLONMEL CAHIR of two networks working to a common aim; promoting excellent Swiss Cottage Cahir food and hospitality in our county which will in turn add to the Cahir Castle Main Guard CARRICK-ON-SUIR local economy with visitors from home and abroad. See below 1 Dovehill our Breakfast Champions who are creating an authentic Tipperary Mitchelstown Caves Design Centre breakfast using the finest of our network’s produce. For more Ormonde Castle information see our website www.tipperaryfoodproducers.ie TIPPERARY FOOD PRODUCERS

www.countrychoice.ie www.horseandjockeyhotel.com 1 Galtee Honey

2 Magners Farm www.hickeysbakery.com

www.theoldconvent.ie 3 Inch House

4 Crosse Family Farm

www.cloughjordanhouse.com www.inchhouse.ie 5 Crossogue Preserves dooks 6 Blackcastle Farm www.hotelminella.com FINE FOODS 7 Cashel Blue Willow Brook B& B www.dooksfinefoods.ieapple Nenagh 8 Brookfield Farm www.willowbrook.ie 9 The Apple Farm

www.facebook.com 10 Ayle Farm /The-Cottage-Loughmore www.raheenhouse.ie WHERE TO FIND US LOCAL ATTRACTIONS

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